Famous Places to Visit

The University of Bern is a university based in Bern, the Swiss capital. It was founded in 1834. It is financed and regulated by the Canton of Bern. It is a full-scale university, and it offers a broad array of programs and courses in eight major a ...

History
The Franciscan Abbey of Kongsfelden is in between the small villages of Windisch and Brugg. Elizabeth von Habsburg established the monastery in 1308. She established the monastery to mark the location where her spouse was killed by a duke. ...

Specializing in the applied arts, as well as in design, decoration and crafts, the Museum Bellerive displays its permanent collection in the form of a continuous programme of temporary exhibitions. The museum’s extensive holdings include furnitur ...

Friesach is Carinthia’s oldest town, with a history going back to 860, when the nearby fortress of Petersberg was founded. Traces of the town’s glorious past have survived to this day, including a moated town wall, 820 m (2,690 ft) long, and se ...

The town of Spittal is dominated by the Goldeck peak (2,142 m/7,028 ft). The history of the town began in the 12th century, when Count Ortenburg founded a church and a Spittal or hospice on this site. The town owes its Renaissance character to the ...